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The recipients of the 2009 Gerry and Bob Virgil Ethic of Service Award will be recognized during a ceremony at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 15, in the Knight Center. Founded during WUSTL’s sesquicentennial year, the Gerry and Bob Virgil Ethic of Service Award annually recognizes a select group of University community members which exemplifies a […]

“Financing University Education” is the focus of a free public conference to be held at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 14, in the Bryan Cave Moot Court Room of Anheuser Busch Hall.

Rachel T. A. Croson, Ph.D., launches a new lecture series on women in academia offered by The Center for Research in Economics and Strategy at the Olin Business School.

Mary B. Campbell, senior vice president for Bank of America, has been named assistant vice chancellor for real estate, announced Henry S. Webber, executive vice chancellor for administration. Campbell’s appointment will be effective April 13.

As America considers major healthcare reforms, it may have lessons to learn from Seguro Popular, Mexico’s ambitious plan to improve healthcare for its estimated 50 million uninsured citizens, suggests Ryan Moore, co-author of a new evaluation of the program. Conducted through a partnership of Mexican health officials and researchers from leading American universities, the study offers a model U.S. policymakers might use to scientifically explore solutions to America’s own looming healthcare crisis.

Led by a pair of standout performances in the decathlon and heptathlon, the women’s and men’s outdoor track and field teams finished first and second, respectively, at the Washington University Invitational April 3 and 4. The women placed first out of 21 schools with 144 points, while the men were second out of 22 with […]

Photo by David KilperMembers of the Olin Business School community organize donations to the WUSTL military care package group’s special “Wash U Women to Military Women” collection March 27. Earlier that month, the care package group asked the WUSTL community to donate objects requested by female soldiers serving in Iraq, such as brightly colored towels, fuzzy socks and lights.

P. James E. Peebles, Ph.D., one of the world’s foremost theoretical cosmologists who played a central role in understanding the evolution and structure of the universe, will deliver two talks April 15 and 16 as part of the McDonnell Distinguished Lecture Series, sponsored by the University’s McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences.

Photo by Jerry Naunheim, Jr.Students Rachel Lyons (left), Gregg Kennedy and Margaret Burke discuss the community involvement of the Catholic Student Center during Faces of Hope, a University-wide celebration of civic engagement and community service April 2 in Whitaker Hall.

A three-person contingent from WUSTL is among the teams of the world’s brightest computer programming talent that will gather in Stockholm, Sweden, April 18-22 to compete in the 33rd annual Association for Computer Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest.